victimized 9/11, Iraq and the Desensitization of the Victimized By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT In the days after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, with the twin towers vanished from Manhattan's skyline, a poem by W.H. Auden could have been the song of a wounded nation. "September 1, 1939," written on the eve of World War II, seemed eerily prescient: Full Article Opinions 9/11 Iraq and the Desensitization of the Victimized